Lower urinary tract symptoms and urinary incontinence
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Lower urinary tract symptoms and urinary incontinence.
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is a global term which includes symptoms caused by failure to store urine and empty the bladder, and post-micturition symptoms. The term LUTS was initially coined in 1994. Before that urinary symptoms were frequently attributed to a particular organ such as the prostate [1]. Since then organocentric terms such as ‘prostatism’ have become increasingly obsolete...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v53i4.279